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Assessment Severity of Community Acquired Pneumonia By Curb-65
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Background: Community acquired pneumonia is the most frequent infection-related cause of death. Illness severity might usefully guide a number of management decisions and predict mortality. Confusion, blood urea ,respiratory rate ,blood pressure and age 65 years or older (CURB-65) based largely on clinical assessment.
Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of CURB-65 score in assessment severity of community-acquired pneumonia and to predict mortality.
Patients and Methods: Fifty patients were enrolled in this prospective study between 1st. of March 2007 and 31st. of January 2008, recruited at Baghdad Teaching Hospital diagnosed as community acquired pneumonia depending on having lower respiratory tract infection symptoms , signs and new infiltrate on the chest radiograph.CURB-65 scoring system was applied and the patients were divided into three groups low risk[CURB-65= (0-1)], intermediate risk [CURB-65= (2)], and high risk [CURB-65= (3-5)] groups . The low risk group was managed at home with oral antibiotics, the intermediate and high risk groups were managed at hospital with intravenous antibiotics. The 30-day mortalities were established.
Results: There were 27(54%) females and 23 (46%) males at a median age of 68 year range from(15-90) year Thirty three patients (66%) had their age 65or older, 26 patients (52%) had B.U>7mmol/l, 11patients (22%) had R.R> 30/minute, 3 patients (6%) had systolic B.P<90 mm Hg, 11patients(22%) had diastolic B.P<60 mm Hg and 14 patients (28%) had confusion. Twenty patients (40%) were in the low risk group (CURB-65=0-1), 12 patients (24%) were in the intermediate risk group (CURB-65=2) and 18 patients (36%) were in the high risk group (CURB-65=3-5). The 30 day mortalities were (0%) in the low risk group, (16.5%) in the intermediate risk group and (30%) in the high risk.
The overall mortality was 8 (16%) patients.
Conclusion: CURB-65 effectively stratified patients regarding the site of medical care, type . route of administration of treatment and predicted mortality.

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Publication Date
Tue Jan 30 2024
Journal Name
Iraqi Journal Of Science
NS2 – Based Experimental Analysis of Throughput for TCP and UDP Traffic During Link Failure of The Network
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     Link failure refers to the failure between two connections/nodes in a perfectly working simulation scenario at a particular instance. Transport layer routing protocols form an important basis of setting up a simulation, with Transmission Control Protocol and User Datagram Protocol being the primary of them. The research makes use of Network Simulator v2.35 to conduct different simulation experiments for link failure and provide validation results. In this paper, both protocols, TCP and UDP are compared based on the throughput of packets delivered from one node to the other constrained to the condition that for a certain interval of time the link fails and the simulation time remains the same for either of the protocols. Overall,

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Mon Apr 01 2019
Journal Name
Biochemical And Cellular Archives
Influence of chemical fertilizers and foliar spraying with humic acid in growth and yield of red cabbage
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Sun Mar 01 2020
Journal Name
Journal Of Engineering
Evaluation of petrophysical Properties of Zubair formation Luhais oil field Using Well Logging Analysis and Archie Parameters
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well log analysis is used to determine the rock properties like porosity, water saturation, and shale volume. Archie parameters in Archie equation, which sometimes considered constants greatly affect the determination of water saturation, also these parameters may be used to indicate whether the rocks are fractured or not so they should be determined. This research involves well logging analysis for Zubair formation in Luhais field which involves the determination of Archie parameters instead of using them as constant.

The log interpretation proved that the formation is hydrocarbon reservoir, as it could be concluded from Rwa (high values) and water saturation values (low values), the lithology of Zubair from cro

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Fri Oct 12 2018
Journal Name
International Journal Of Dynamics And Control
Decentralized adaptive partitioned approximation control of high degrees-of-freedom robotic manipulators considering three actuator control modes
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Wed Jun 30 2021
Journal Name
Iraqi Geological Journal
The Effect of Weighting Materials on the Rheological Properties of Iraqi and Commercial Bentonite in Direct Emulsion
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Numerous drilling additives and materials are used continuously because they are necessary to support and give the required properties of the drilling fluid so that to ensure the stability of the borehole. This paper aspires to evaluate the rheological properties of bentonite (montmorillonite) Trefawey as an alternative to using commercial bentonite. Monitoring and evaluating of the rheological and filtration properties were prepared. This exertion aims to focus on the effect of hematite, and barite on the rheological properties of the three aforementioned bentonite types. An improvement in the rheological properties of bentonite (montmorillonite). Trefawey was observed after adding the previous heavy materials. Hematite has by some

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Sun Nov 12 2017
Journal Name
Ibn Al-haitham Journal For Pure And Applied Sciences
On Application of Discrete Logarithms in Information - Hiding and Knapsack Problem with New Properties of Sk-Sets
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Discrete   logarithms  are applied      in many    cryptographic problems  . For instance ,   in public   key .  and for construction of sets with disti nct sums of  k-clcments.  The   purpose o r  this   paper

is  to  modify  the  method ol' informationl1·iding  using        discrete logarithms  , introduce new properties of St - sets ,   uscdthe direct product   of    groups   to construct  cyclic group and finally, present modified   method   for   knapsack &

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Publication Date
Fri Dec 29 2017
Journal Name
Ibn Al-haitham Journal For Pure And Applied Sciences
Effect of Different Magnetic Fields on The Relative Efficiency and The Energy Resolution of Nai(TI) Detectors
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The effect of different magnetic Jiel ds on the Nal(Tl) scintillation detector of (3"x3") and (1.5"x1.5")   sizes was studies, using the radioactive source Cs-137.

Two type:; of coils (A,B)  were used to produce the magnetic fields. The coil "A" is cylindrical of "9cm" diameter and "9cm" length , and of

2500 turns.

The measurements were taken in two positions ;the first when the crystal inside the coil ,and the second, the PMT inside the coil . The range of the magnetic field was (0.35,0.61,0.84,1.1 1,1.37,1.62,1.87 and

2.12) mT.

The coil "D" consists of two circular and parallel coils of "12 em" distance between them and of "18.5 em" diameter of each other and of "125" turns. rive &

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Publication Date
Fri Dec 23 2022
Journal Name
Innovative Infrastructure Solutions
Experimental modeling of a single pile in liquefiable soil under the effect of coupled static-dynamic loads
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In this work, a single pile is physically modeled and embedded in an upper liquefiable loose sand layer overlying a non-liquefiable dense layer. A laminar soil container is adopted to simulate the coupled static-dynamic loading pile response during earthquake motions: Ali Algharbi, Halabjah, El-Centro, and Kobe earthquakes. During seismic events with combined loading, the rotation along the pile, the lateral and vertical displacements at the pile head as well as the pore pressure ratio in loose sandy soil were assessed. According to the experimental findings, combined loading that ranged from 50 to 100% of axial load would alter the pile reaction by reducing the pile head peak ground acceleration, rotation of the pile, and lateral displacem

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Wed Nov 22 2017
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Farm Machinery And Processes Management In Sustainable Agriculture, Ix International Scientific Symposium
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Tue Dec 06 2016
Journal Name
Chalcogenide Letters
THEORETICAL MODELING OF THE ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES CORE AND SURFACE OF CdSe1-xTex CHALCOGENIDE NANOCRYSTALS VIA DFT CALCULATION
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